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[veeblevort]

I'm wondering whether anyone has actually seen the 1841 image?
I'm not clear from the above whether  this could be an error at the time
of the census, or an indexing error when the information was prepared
for public lookups.

[bandits1ock]

I have seen the original register entry and to my eyes it looks like Bollard and shoemaker
I have this theory that when the census taker arrived at his doorstep that he had a cold and Pollard sounded like Bollard.

[veeblevort]

OK. You may have gone down this route already. We know he died between censuses
whatever his name was, so at FreeBMD:

Search for   Type:   Deaths   Surname:   pollard   First name(s):   william
Start date:   Mar 1841   End date:   Dec 1851   District:   Kingston upon Hull
 

Surname  First name(s)  Age  District  Vol  Page 

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Deaths Dec 1845   (>99%)
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POLLARD  William    Hull  22 261 


and then:

Search for   Type:   Deaths   Surname:   bollard   First name(s):   william
Start date:   Mar 1841   End date:   Dec 1851   District:   Kingston upon Hull

Sorry, we found no matches.
Looking ok so far, so that death cert could help if the name of
the informant or the address is right. Have you already looked at that one?